Daft Punk tease new album material during 15-second Saturday Night Live ad

Daft Punk have not released an album in eight years (Picture: Seb Janiak)

Daft Punk have released new music (albeit only 15 seconds of it) via a commercial aired during Saturday Night Live.

The snippet was accompanied simply by a slowly rotating Daft Punk logo and offered no new album title or release date.

The teaser suggests the electro duo will be going for a more disco sound with the new record, it being all sizzling guitar riffs and funky keyboard lines.

On his official Facebook page, DJ Erol Alkan said the riff has ‘got to be’ the work of Chic’s Nile Rodgers, a musician who has been rumoured to be working with the band on the upcoming release.

Rodgers all but confirmed this, retweeting a handful of fans who had proposed the same theory.

Daft Punk fans have been waiting a long time for new music. Apart from their soundtrack to 2010 film Tron: Legacy, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have not released an album since Human After All in 2005, which spawned the hits Robot Rock and Technologic.

Other artists rumoured to have collaborated on the new album include Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, Chilly Gonzales and Muppets songwriter Paul Williams.

Daft Punk announced that they have signed a deal with Columbia Records, but there are as yet no tour plans.